Lothringen colliery

Lothringen colliery
	General information about the mine
	Machine house and administration building in 2005
Mining technology	Underground mining
	Information about the mining company
Operating company	Lorraine / Eschweiler Mining Association
Start of operation	1872
End of operation	1967
Successor use	Shaft 6 as a weather shaft for the Mont Cenis and Erin collieries until 1980
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 31 '7 " N , 7 ° 16' 57.6" E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '7 " N , 7 ° 16' 57.6" E
	Location Lothringen colliery
Location	Gerthe
local community	Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	Bochum
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The bill Lorraine was a coal - mine in Bochum district Gerthe .

Shaft systems

The mine had a total of six shafts . The shafts 1, 2 and the weather shaft (later called shaft 6 ) were located on Lothringer Straße:

Shaft 1: 1872 Teufbeginn, closed in 1967, 51 ° 31 ′ 7 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 57.63 ″ E51.51861 7.282676
Shaft 2: 1895 Teufbeginn, closed in 1967, 51 ° 31 ′ 7.1 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 53.69 ″ E51.518639 7.281581
Weather shaft 6: 1884 Teufbeginn, closed in 1980, 51 ° 31 ′ 9.4 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 56.25 ″ E51.519278 7.282291
Shaft 3 (on Ostwaldstrasse): Teufbeginn in 1901, closed in 1966, 51 ° 31 ′ 20.84 ″ N , 7 ° 17 ′ 44.2 ″ E51.522455 7.29561
Shaft 4 (in the district Hiltrop between Hiltroper road and Dietrich-Benking road): decommissioned Teufbeginn 1910, 1967, 51 ° 30 '37.08 " N , 7 ° 15' 12.96" O51.5103 7.2536
Shaft 5 (between 1/2/6 and 4 on Castroper Hellweg): Beginning of devil in 1913, beginning of production in 1915 - but soon only cable travel, closed in 1957, filled in in 1968 51 ° 30 ′ 43.2 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 7 ″ E51.512 7.2686

The pits were all accessible via works railway connections between the Dortmund-Bövinghausen station and the Bochum-Nord station (via a connecting line to the Bochum steelworks).

history

The Lorraine trade union, founded in 1872 by Fritz Funke , FW Waldthausen and Johann Wilhelm Schürenberg , gradually developed into a coal and steel company in the legal form of a stock corporation . In the 1920s, Bergbau-AG Lothringen had holdings and interest groups with Chemische Werke Lothringen GmbH (Bochum), Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG (Essen), Henschel & Sohn AG (Kassel), Hanomag (Hanover), and Westfalenbank AG (Bochum) and Wintershall AG (Kassel). Since 1957 the Eschweiler Bergwerksverein (EBV) has been the majority shareholder.

In a firedamp explosion on August 8, 1912, 115 miners were killed at a depth of 350 meters . Safety deficiencies and inadequate weather management were the cause of the accident. Kaiser Wilhelm II was just in the Ruhr area because of the 100th anniversary of Krupp and decided to visit the colliery to give his condolences to the survivors. There is a history painting for this. In the time of National Socialism 1933–1945, forced labor camps were set up on the site of the Lorraine colliery in order to secure the necessary labor force.

In 1960 the Graf Schwerin colliery was taken over and Shaft 1 in Lorraine was expanded into a central shaft. At the height of the coal crisis in the second half of the 1960s, Bergbau-AG Lothringen began to withdraw completely from hard coal mining . Most of the mines were sold to the Eschweiler Bergwerks-Verein (EBV). He then continued the mines or shut them down when the remaining service life no longer seemed sufficient. On January 1, 1967, the Lorraine / Graf Schwerin composite mine was shut down. Part of the mine field came to the Erin colliery , which had also been bought by the EBV.

At the end of the 19th century, the construction of workers' apartments began to attract and retain the necessary workforce.

The impregnation plant on the site of Shaft V, inaugurated in 1922 , in which railway sleepers were mainly impregnated with tar oil and construction timber cyanized , was operated until the end of 1992, most recently by a subsidiary of Pfleiderer GmbH .

With Seppel the last German was of the colliery Lorraine pit pony in August 1966 transported to the surface. It received its bread of grace in Lüdinghausen.

The shafts were filled and the daytime facilities demolished. The coking plant at Graf Schwerin 1/2 was operated until 1975. The weather shaft 6 was still in operation until 1980.

Since 1997, the project course "Coal Grave Country" in Gerthe has dealt with the processing of historical events around the Lorraine colliery and the Gerthe district.

Current condition

Lorraine Business Park; old buildings re-used

Lorraine mine 5

The administration building, the machine houses and the ammonia factory buildings of the shaft system 1/2/6 on Lothringer Strasse have been preserved in very good condition. The covered shafts 1 and 2 can be seen in front of the machine houses. Shaft 6 is next to the administration building at the entrance.

On Shaft 3 on Oswaldstrasse there are still the Markenstube , the administration building, the switch house, the kaue and some barracks from the former prison camp . The filled shaft can only be recognized by a sign.

Apart from a pulley, nothing is left of the shaft system 4 . Residential houses are being built north of the former shaft. An industrial park has been created on the rest of the site. The soil polluted by the coking plant was pushed together to form two mounds and sealed.

Shaft 5 is located on Castroper Hellweg. The machine house with the filled and covered shaft and two other buildings and boilers were in a visibly poor condition until 2011. The area was fenced in and not accessible. At the beginning of 2011, the remediation of the considerable contaminated sites began in order to be able to locate businesses.

literature

Evelyn Kroker , Michael Farrenkopf: Mine accidents in German-speaking countries. Catalog of the mines, victims, causes and sources. 2nd expanded edition, Bochum 1999, ISBN 3-921533-68-6 .
Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginnings to 1997. 2nd revised and expanded edition. German Mining Museum, Bochum 1998, ISBN 3-921533-62-7 . (= Publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum , Volume 74.) / 3rd revised and expanded edition under the title: Die Steinkohlenzechen im Ruhrrevier. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005. Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 . (= Publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum , Volume 144.)